Colby on Nostr: Einstein attempted to unify gravity with quantum physics and black hole singularities ...

Einstein attempted to unify gravity with quantum physics and black hole singularities using frameworks that were continuous.

He never attempted any discrete frameworks, but the modern world has become obsessed with discrete frameworks like LQG and string theory. Quantum physics itself is discrete, hence the word quanta — meaning discrete quantities.

It’s hard to think spacetime is continuous if quantum physics is discrete, but Einstein kept believing a way would emerge that maintained space-time as a continuum.

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The two most relevant attempts of his that added torsion are the Einstein-Cartan theory which hybridizes curvature and torsion, and Teleparallel Gravity which replaces curvature with torsion entirely.